Drew Hamblin is in his 11th season as an assistant athletic trainer with the Husker football team in 2024. Hamblin assists with all aspects of the athletic medicine efforts for the football team, including year-round preventive care, immediate care for injured athletes at practice and games and the reconditioning of injured athletes.
Before coming to Nebraska, Hamblin spent three seasons as an assistant athletic trainer at Auburn from 2011 to 2013, when he worked with the Tiger football program. Previously, Hamblin served as the Director of Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer at Newberry College in Newberry, S.C. Hamblin also possesses NFL experience, as he spent the 2009 season as an athletic trainer intern with the Buffalo Bills.
Hamblin is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association and holds certifications in Functional Movement Screen, DARI Motion Capture, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist and Blood Flow Restriction Rehabilitation.
A native of Madison, Wis., he earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology-athletic training from Wisconsin in 2007. Hamblin earned a master's degree in sports management from Arkansas in 2009. He and his wife, Heather, have four children.